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hashtag_chocobro) wrote2021-02-02 05:49 am
hashtag_chocobro) wrote2021-02-02 05:49 am
MHA #4; Tuesday Afternoon [02/02].
Well, if Prompto was going to be on the island to substitute for a class (so weird!), then it would be ridiculous of him to not take advantage of that fact to pester hang out with his little sister for a bit. The only problem was that he found out that his little sister just so happened to be in the middle of a very complicated spell that had her a little preoccupied. But Prompto wasn't going to let something like that stop him.
Even if he got one look at all the chalk covering Summer's apartment and immediately fixed Nina with a look of disapproval.
"You're taking a break," he announced. "I'm going to be back in five minutes with some food, and you're going to take a break and rest, and then I'm going to help you with some of this."
And sure, he said that, but after that break and they had full stomaches, there was a cat and Prompto was...maybe a little distracted.
"~Pancakes, Pancakes~," he sang, as he pet and snuggled and danced the poor cat's limbs around, "~Oh, if only you could talk! Bet you'd saa~ay, it's a miracle I'm not covered in chalk!~"
He thought it was pretty good for having just made it up on the spot. With a muffled little merow, though, it seemed Pancakes was less impressed.
"Honestly, though," he added, dropping the song for another look around from where he was sitting on a yet-to-be-chalked spot on the floor, "this is so much work, Nina..."
[[ apartment, cat, and sister all modded with permission! definitely open if anyone wants to swing by lol ]]
[[ edit: that Nina's working on something in the apartment is a-okay, but if the specifics could be NFB, that'd be baller ]]
Even if he got one look at all the chalk covering Summer's apartment and immediately fixed Nina with a look of disapproval.
"You're taking a break," he announced. "I'm going to be back in five minutes with some food, and you're going to take a break and rest, and then I'm going to help you with some of this."
And sure, he said that, but after that break and they had full stomaches, there was a cat and Prompto was...maybe a little distracted.
"~Pancakes, Pancakes~," he sang, as he pet and snuggled and danced the poor cat's limbs around, "~Oh, if only you could talk! Bet you'd saa~ay, it's a miracle I'm not covered in chalk!~"
He thought it was pretty good for having just made it up on the spot. With a muffled little merow, though, it seemed Pancakes was less impressed.
"Honestly, though," he added, dropping the song for another look around from where he was sitting on a yet-to-be-chalked spot on the floor, "this is so much work, Nina..."
[[ apartment, cat, and sister all modded with permission! definitely open if anyone wants to swing by lol ]]
[[ edit: that Nina's working on something in the apartment is a-okay, but if the specifics could be NFB, that'd be baller ]]
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That went for the squirrels too.
But as for his actual question...
"I think that, like, even if he doesn't appreciate the pool," she said, though she thought he'd appreciate it because Ignis liked the finer things in life and her pool? Was quite high-class. "That he'll appreciate the effort and thought that went into it, you know??????"
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He went a little quiet for a moment, looking down at his fingers running through Pancakes' soft fur.
"And I just hope," he added, looking back up at Nina, "you'll get to enjoy it, too."
He still wasn't...quite sure exactly how Nina's magic worked, if he was honest, just like he didn't really get Noct's magic, either, but he did know that it took a lot out of her, and it didn't seem right, that she should do all this work and not get to enjoy it or run herself ragged for it.
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This sort of pedantic, versatile, time-consuming magic.
"I'll be good," she promised. "Like, I should be done laying the spells out by tomorrow evening, and I'll have to check the timing with Summer, see when she was thinking the actual start of the party would be, but I was thinking I'd trigger the spells around noon on Saturday so that there's time for her and Annie and Rey," she just assumed they were helping with this, "to set up??????? And while they're setting up, I'll get a good nap in, so I'll be up and able to enjoy the party!!!!!!!!!! And once the spell is triggered, it'll dissipate without extra effort from me once time's up, so………."
It'd all be fine!
Unless he hated it. Then it would not be fine. But no, no. Nina wasn't thinking about that.
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...he would just have to trust her. And then not let her hear the end of it if any of his concerns ended up being realized.
"Okay," he said, making sure to sound reluctant and skeptical about it. "If you say so. And if there's anything you need on my end, you let me know. I mean anything. Even if it's something, like, super small or silly."
Especially if it was small and silly, because then he knew he could at least be good at it.
"It is really cool that you're doing this for him, too, Nina."
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She looked down, a little flustered.
"Like, he deserves a party that's all about him, you know????????? Everyone does………."
And it was a crying shame that Ignis never really got that!
"As for what you could do…………..," she said, "what about, like, a charcuterie board that fits the theme?????????? Summer's handling the bulk of the food prep, but she hasn't mentioned anything like that and I know Ignis would enjoy that sort of thing??????????"
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And, man, if he was going to put together a charcuterie board to impress Ignis, it would really have to be something good and special...
"I can text Summer, too," he offered. "Make sure there's no overlap or anything."
And maybe she'd have some ideas, too. He kept up on her socials! She was good at this sort of thing! Noct could probably weigh in, too. He knew Ignis better than pretty much anyone.
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Sometimes presentation really was everything.
"But, like, checking with Summer is a good idea!!!!!!!!!!! She won't steer you wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!"
…
"Usually," she finished, remembering that, yeah, Nina had been in some of those terrible cooking classes she'd done.
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But he'd not talk smack about her, especially not in front of her cat, who was now peering up at Prompto from his lap, purring and looking content, but he could swear that was a glint in her eyes that suggested that he would regret it if he would even so much as dare extrapolating on that snort.
"No meat and cheese thrown into a Tupperware," Prompto vowed, though he snickered just thinking of the look on Ignis's face if he did just do that. "Got it. I think I can manage at least that.
"Soooo," he then ventured, thinking they'd probably talked enough about all that for now and Nina needed a break from it, anyway, even if she would probably insist that she didn't, "how have things been, anyway? Outside of you chalking up a storm?"
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And Pancakes.
"I don't know," she admitted. "Day to day, I'm doing great!!!!!!!!!! School's fine, you know?????????" And Liam being dad wasn't anything she really wanted to talk about with her brother. It was complicated, but not in a bad way. On the bright side, she had other things to flail about and, like, Prompto was one of the few people who she'd admit some of it to. "Like, I'm sort of staring down the fact that I've only got a year and a half left of school with a lot of…….."
Screaming into the void? Screaming into the void.
"Like, it's starting to come up in my feeds a lot about ~life after graduation~ and I just………….. don't have a plan?????????"
And she hated that.
"I've been thinking of going back to my world, too, to help with the war," she admitted. "But I'm…….. what if I get trapped there for months again???????"
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"Yeaaaah," he said, "we should maybe figure out a way to make sure that doesn't happen again if we can. And, hey, if anything, I'm sure if you don't figure something out in a year and a half, Iggy could find something for you to do...
"Although I guess," he realized a moment later, almost apologetically, "that's pretty much just trading one war for another, isn't it?"
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She was already a spy for the crown—in his world.
"I mean, like, true," she allowed, since actually telling her brother that was… well. Maybe she'd tell him when she was eighteen and therefore an adult and not tell him just how long she'd been working for the crown…
"And how much would you worry????????
"But there's other things," she said, "like, what about Sir Foomy????????? Honestly, I really think if I kept it multi-universal that I'd be able to make a serious killing as a television writer??????????"
She was making pretty great money off of it already.
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“Not in this world,” she allowed, absolutely certain in some worlds that television was literally deadly. “Though I caaaaaaan take care of myself!!!!!!!!”